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91Straw paintings — By modelling and playing with straw, our great grandmothers have long ago started weaving straw and making wonderful artistic objects. As time passed, they acquired more skill in working with straw and a century ago, created a very specific art… …
92Straw-necked Ibis — Taxobox name = Straw necked Ibis status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Ciconiiformes familia = Threskiornithidae genus = Threskiornis species = T. spinicollis binomial = Threskiornis… …
93Straw man (dummy) — A straw man is a dummy in the shape of a human usually made up entirely out of straw material, or created by stuffing straw into clothes. Straw men are commonly used as scarecrows, combat training targets, swordsmiths test targets, effigies to be …
94Straw Dogs (band) — Infobox musical artist | Name = Straw Dogs Img capt = Seattle based Americana Rock group featuring David von Beck and Darren Smith. Img size = Background = group or band Alias = Origin = Seattle Genre = Rock Years active = 1997 – present Label =… …
95straw — [[t]strɔ[/t]] n. 1) agr. bot a single stalk or stem esp. of a cereal grass, as wheat, rye, oats, or barley 2) agr. a mass of such stalks, esp. after drying and threshing, used as fodder 3) material made from such stalks and used to fashion hats… …
96Straw bale — used. traw bale constructionWhen bales are used to build or insulate buildings, the straw bales are commonly finished with plaster. The plastered walls provide excellent thermal mass, compressive and ductile structural strength, and excellent… …
97Straw, Jack — ▪ 2001 Following his appointment as the U.K. s home secretary in 1997, British politician Jack Straw proved hard to characterize. Though liberal and reformist in some respects, he was conservative and authoritarian in other ways.… …
98straw — noun 1 dried plant stems used for food, packaging, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ clean, fresh … OF STRAW ▪ bale ▪ I sat on a bale of straw near the fire. PREPOSITION …
99straw — n. tube 1) (to drink) through a straw 2) (misc.) to decide smt. by drawing straws (also fig.) misc. 3) a straw in the wind ( a hint of smt. to come ); to clutch at straws ( to try in desperation ); the last straw, or: the straw that broke the… …
100straw */*/ — UK [strɔː] / US [strɔ] noun Word forms straw : singular straw plural straws 1) [uncountable] the yellow stems of dried crops such as wheat bales of straw a straw hat 2) [countable] a long thin paper or plastic tube that you use for drinking •… …
